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Jeff's Top 5 Training Books

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by Jeff Christian

 

I liked Rob’s top 5 training books, so I thought I would do my own, if only to answer my own question of, “I dunno, what would my top 5 list be?”

 

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Why Kihon and Sanshin Are Important

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Budo Taijutsu

 

by Alex Phinn

 

With taijutsu we need to know and understand our sanshin no kata and our kihon happo if we want to even hope to understand anything more in taijutsu.

 

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Five Books

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by Rob Flanagan

As you can understand, writing an article that will in some way help or possibly influence your training is a difficult task to take on, especially for someone as simple as me.  With this in mind I’ve decided to take the easy way out by listing five books that have directly influenced my training.

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The ryu-ha System and Passing Knowledge

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by Jeff Christian

It has become a fashion of sorts in the martial arts to name what one does with a Japanese name, even if one does not have a Japanese martial art background or have any ability to speak Japanese. This use of such terms such as "ryuha" and "Soke" has caused a lot of confusion, even among those that study in a style originating in Japan.

The simplest way to think about a ryuha is that it is a franchise and the soke is the copyright holder.

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Training with an Injury

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by Erin Williams

As anyone who has trained with me recently knows, I have been the lucky recipient of three knee surgeries in the past year and have been unable to practice taijutsu during that time. I have only recently begun to attend classes again and this article is about some of the things that I have learned from training (or not training) with an injury.

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